October 6
Some things require time. A person doesn’t become educated in a day. Attaining a battery of knowledge requires the steady application of study and research in order to achieve mastery. Wars are not won with a single battle but through the rigors of many encounters with a relentless foe.
It can be disconcerting to plod along, to ‘keep on keeping on’ when the outcome seems tenuous at best and the potential for defeat hangs like a dark cloud over the circumstances that are faced. The psalmist understood the concern that looms over the mind of one who cannot see a clear road to victory.
In Psalm 13:4-5, David says, “My foes will rejoice because I am shaken; but I have trusted in Your faithful love and my heart will rejoice in Your deliverance.” Though David knew he had been chosen by God to be King of Israel, though he knew ultimate victory was his, still the daily battle was wearing.
Like him, the believer today must face the day-to-day skirmishes that dog his heels. Like him, the believer today must wage continual warfare against the relentless foe who would rejoice in seeing him fail to achieve the purposes of God for his life. And like David, the man of faith today will achieve his victory!
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